Card-holder.



No. 648,926. Patented May 8, I900.'

C. C. CLEMENT.

' CARD HOLDER.

(Application filed Sept. 1, 1899.)

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CHARLES CROSBY CLEMENT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CARD-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 648,926, dated May 8,1900. Application filed September '7, 1899. Serial No. 729,744. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES CROSBY CLEM- ENT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Card-Holder, of which thefollowingis a specification. Y

This invention relates to card-holders in general, and more particularlyto that class employed in holding a price card or ticket to a boxcontaining articles for sale; and the ob-' ject of the invention is toprovide a construction which will be simple and cheap of manufacture,which will hold the card yieldably, and which, moreover, may be adjustedto support the cards either at an angle or horizontally and evenvertically when preferred.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in whichlike reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in the severalviews, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box, showing the applicationof the cardholder thereto. Fig.2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showingthe positions of the parts when supporting a card horizontally. Fig. 3is a detail perspective view of the holder in a position to support acard slantingly or at an angle to the box. Fig. 4 shows a differentelastic connection. Fig. 5 shows acloth tagholder.

Referring now to the drawings, the holder consists of two elements, oneof which is formed of a piece of spring-wire bent upon itself to formtwo parallel legs 5 and 6, having.

a connecting web orbight 7. The ends of the legs 5 and 6 are bent inparallel planes to form claspiug-hooks, comprising bills 8 and 9 andbights 10 and 11, these hooks lying parallel and adapted to be sprung toreceive the edge of a box 12. In connection with this element isemployed a second element consisting of a wire bent upon itself to formparallel legs 15 and 16, having a connecting web or bight 17, the wirefrom which this element is formed being bent at the ends of the bight 17to form eyes 18 and 19, lying in a common plane, the adjacent faces ofthe bight 17 and the sides of the eyes 18 and 19 forming jaws which areadapted to receive a price card or ticket 20.

The ends of the legs 15 and 16 are bent to form substantially closedhooks 21 and 22.

In order to connect the two elements above described, a short rubberband 23 is slipped upon each hook 21 and 22, and through the bands arealso passed the bills 8 and 9. These bands are adjustable with respectto the hooks that they engage, and, as shown in Fig. 1, the bands mayengage the curved portions of the hooks of the first-nam ed elementintermediate the bills and bights thereof and may also engage the bightsof the hooks of the second element, when the card supported by thesecond element will lie at an angle to the upper surface of the box. Thesizes of the rubber bands are such that they will remain in theiradjusted position, and to facilitate this action the bights l0 and 11are separated by a lesser space than the books 22 and 23 in order thatthey may hold the rubber bands under tension.

If it is desired that the pricecards shall lie horizontally, it is onlynecessary to shift the rubber bands onto the bights 8 and 9, and if itis desired that the cards shall stand erect the bands may be shiftedfull upon the bights or webs 10 and 11.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings there is shown a structure similar to thatshown in the. other.

figures, with the exception that the hooks 21 and 22 are omitted and theends of the legs '26 of the legs 27 and 28, corresponding to the legs 5and 6, the hooks 29 and 30 being adapt ed to engage the side of the box,as above described.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings the card-holding element is the same as shownin Figs. 1, 2, and 3, with the exception that the hooks 21 and 22 lie atthe opposite side of the element. With these hooks are engaged elasticbands 23, forming a means of connection with the supporting element.This supporting element consists of a wire bent upon itself to formparallel legs 35 and 36, having a connecting web or bight 37, whichlatter is bent to lie in a plane parallel with the legs 35 and 36,resulting in the formation of a hook comtie bands 23 are engaged. Theends of the legs 35 and 36 are pointed to adapt this form of theinvention for holding a card or tag to a fabric.

What I claim is- 1. A card-holder comprising an element having hooksadapted for connection with a box, and a second element adapted toreceive a card and having elastic and adjustable connection With thefirst-named clement Whereby the elements may be adjusted to lie normallyat various angles to each other.

2. A cardholder comprising an element having hooks adapted to receive aportion of the box, a second element adapted to receive a card andhaving hooks, and rubber bands disposed upon the hooks of the elements,and forming elastic connections therebetween.

3. A card-holder comprising an element having hooks adapted to clampupon a box, a second element having hooks and adapted to receive a card,and elastic bands connecting the corresponding hooks of the elements andadjustable thereon to hold the elements at different angles.

4. A card-holder comprising an element having hooks adaptedto clamp uponabox, a second element having clamping-jaws adapted to receive a cardand comprising hooks, and elastic bands connecting the correspondinghooks of the elements and adapted for adjustment thereon to hold' theelements yieldably at various angles.

5. A card-holder comprising an element adapted for connection with asupport and a In testimony that I claim theforegoing as my own I-havehereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES CROSBY CLEMENT. Vito esses:

FREDERIC H. FRENCH, CHESTER W; CLEMENT.

